On a spar of a mountain range a small catlike creature reverentially approached the edge, the sight slowing her walk to a stunned standstill at the very edge, wind catching it's collar of fur as it took in the scene before her.

Standing on a ledge of a mountain range there was an uninterrupted view of the plain before it, the wide, flat bowl of land was cast into deep shadow by the fat red-gold sun half over the horizon. From the black expanse of the land the spires of a single black city stabbed upwards to be silhouetted against the sunset.

As the Wocky stood stunned the human watched. She stood a little way behind and to the side of the catlike creature and smiled lovingly at the little girl's reaction to the sight. She let the silence become part of the moment and then broke it, without breaking it at all.

"This is all I can offer you."

The wocky was still gazing at the scene before her but now thinking. Time held it's breath as the wind played over the wocky's fur and wafted among the girl's golden coat that was almost a robe.

The young wocky turned back to the girl, looking up at her with shining eyes and leapt into the girl's waiting arms as she caught her and they moved to the end of the rock.

A word floated on the wind, and the animal knew instinctively that it was both her name and who she was, looking out over the plain from the horseshoe of mountains.

Sanrina.

Oh, and a little comic featuring Sanrina, I know her head sucks in the last panel...

2006-03-14[moira hawthorne]: the difference is barely anything... between 591px and 500 px

2006-03-14[moira hawthorne]: the horizon is never clear... its call atmospheric perpsective... things it the distance become blurry ... so the sky line and earth curve away is never a crisp line of high contrast... and at sunset this effect is exagrated... because of the lower light levels... so unless it is near by buildings or tree line... and that means the close to mid distance you are not going to get a crisp line between earth and sky... and here in this painting the horizon is the very very far distance... so very blurry... and b/c it is sunset the colours of the sky are going to be on the ground.. refective colour and light.

2006-03-14[Estantia]: I see, but there is quite a crisp one because it's a bowl, not a flat area it's slightly concave so the light hit below where you are... it does work, no idea how to explain it though...

2006-03-14[Estantia]: they do... and I did try.... stupid burn tool makes a really obvious line though, which is NOT what I wanted... and there really isn't that much between them and the coast, maybe a bit of forest but really relatively empty

2006-03-14[Estantia]: nah... don't spend your valuable time on it... I quite like it as is but I may yet do something...

2006-03-14[moira hawthorne]: want a cool trick that would look really good..... copy the sky paste it back flip it vertically ... so it is like a reflection... compress it to about a cm put that over the horizon and blurr it abit... use the eraser tool to make the city a silolette...

2006-03-15[moira hawthorne]: photos are different than paintings... b/c painting creat what you see and camera take different effects... I also dont have a tonnes of photos to choose from at my disposial... but there something simular on [Lordterrex]'s house... just the camera exagated the lens flare of the sun... and the ground isnt in as much shadow b/c itnot as much of a drop away bowl....

2006-03-16[Estantia]: i see what you mean, but it would still be quite dark because snow's also much more reflective.

2006-03-16[moira hawthorne]: yes you put on multiple layer... and blur and earse it to look pleasing..

2006-03-16[Estantia]: that might work... as most of the details are either rocks or grass, maybe some forest, it doesn't particularly help...

2006-03-16[moira hawthorne]: basically what you dont want is a sharp high contrast line in the far distance